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MARCH 1, 2022

It is especially abhorrent that a government program intended to create equitable opportunities for all students instead perpetuates racial and economic gaps in financial stability and mobility. By seizing these benefits, the federal government takes away critical financial lifelines that reduce poverty for millions of families.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

A community school or wraparound services model is when a school partners with other government agencies and/or local nonprofits to support and engage with the local community (e.g., Federal funding for community schools tripled during the pandemic to $75 million in 2021-22 from $25 million in 2019-20.

Psychology 134

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

When Iowa Wesleyan University announced in March that it would close, its biggest creditor was a federal government agency that had loaned it $26 million and then — in an attempt to help the university survive —softened the terms and extended the repayment period. The most recent scores are from 2019-20. Dordt has an estimated $43.4

Economics 123

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The Jakarta Post reported that Sumba went 249 days without rain in 2019. Peru’s northern coast regularly suffers droughts followed by torrential rains, some so severe the Peruvian government has declared states of emergency multiple times over the past few years. GROWING A GLOBAL SISTERHOOD It seems our work has seeded change.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

Michael Itzkowitz, education consultant and former director of College Scorecard, an online federal government tool At Brenau, the lowest-income students paid $24,640 out of pocket in 2020-21 after all the discounts, grants, and scholarships. It provides a further reflection on what’s the purpose of higher education as a whole.

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Official measures of multiple deprivation in each of the four nations of the UK are used to allocate billions of pounds of government money. Neighbourhood deprivation measures play a major role in identifying vulnerable communities in the UK, and in targeting resources to them.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

But each year since 2019, fewer sponsors have signed up to participate, going from 78 in 2019 to 45 in 2023, according to the South Carolina Department of Education. The state’s biggest program is run by the USDA and relies on sponsors, like the Lowcountry Food Bank, to distribute the food.

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ED Surge

JULY 31, 2024

A 2019 report from the Century Foundation, called “ Dear Colleges: Take Control of Your Online Courses, ” urged institutions to turn away from outsourced programs. OPMs have come under scrutiny in recent years, particularly for tuition-sharing contracts that critics say encourage predatory marketing practices and swell student loan debt.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2022

Public two-year community colleges achieved a new budgetary milestone in fiscal year 2021 as they reaped 6 percent more money per student from state and local governments than public four-year institutions did for their regular operating expenses: $9,347 versus $8,859 for each student. College is optional.

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MARCH 25, 2024

government are all trying to encourage more young Americans to pursue careers in STEM, an acronym for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. And it’s a problem that potentially extends to the whole private school universe, where 9 percent of students are enrolled , according to the most recently available data from 2019.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

million students calculated that in the spring of 2021 students in each grade scored three to six percentile points lower on a widely used test, the Measures of Academic Progress or MAP, than they did in 2019. Students in grades 3 through 8 slid 6 percentage points in reading on state tests in the spring of 2021 compared to 2019.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 31, 2024

It was hard to gain access and insight into the ship industry when I first visited in the winter of 2019–2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. out of its own accord), directing the government of Bangladesh to halt all shipbreaking within Bangladesh and ban importing ships for breaking. The changes took place as late as 2011.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Rajbhandari, who beat an incumbent to win a seat on Boise’s school board last year, sounds like any other boosterish local elected official — except he’s an 18-year-old high school senior in the same district he governs. And it’s a very resilient ecosystem. The difference is you have a vote.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

The current level of political polarization is having a chilling effect, making civics education into a third rail, according to Holly Korbey, an education reporter and the author of a 2019 book on civics education, “Building Better Citizens: A New Civics Education for All.” “We

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

Related: Reckoning with Mississippi’s ‘segregation academies’ Not surprisingly, in 2022, the Government Accountability Office declared that school segregation continues unabated. GDP from 1990 to 2019 would have been $22.9 trillion larger. This would benefit us all.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

Harvard University paid about $10 million to the city of Boston in 2019 in a payment in lieu of taxes, or PILOT, although this amount fell short of what the city asked for. Harvard gave about $10 million to Boston in 2019, about $3 million less than what the city requested. million to Boston in 2019. Brown gave over $6.2

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Things … the government does affect us, but we can’t vote,” she said.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

But our research on firewood gathering by Diné people shows the federal government can do more to ensure the promises of equitable co-management. A number of different groups are engaged in this process, including federal, state, and local government agencies; conservation organizations; and tribes.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2021

Fifteen state flagships had at least a 10-point gap between the percentage of Black public high school graduates in their states in 2019 and the Black share of freshmen they enrolled that fall. About 7 percent of its freshmen in 2019 were Latino, compared with nearly 14 percent of Maryland’s public high school graduates. I want U-Md.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Washington state’s free-college program, enacted by law in 2019, is considered one of the nation’s most generous. The average cost of tuition and fees at a four-year, nonprofit, private institution was $36,900 in 2019-2020 for a full-time student. Jay Inslee signed into law in 2019. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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JUNE 14, 2021

Mothers Gwyn Hainsworth, far left, Vernee Fletcher, Jamie Zimmerman, Katy Strange and Leticia Bazemore pose at Jefferson Park in Seattle during a June 2019 soccer scrimmage. Parents from the Green Lake and Rising Star elementary schools in Seattle meet for a spaghetti dinner in late 2019. It was never about the money,” she said. “We

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In Nevada, just 4 percent of students who took a career-oriented science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) course in the 2019-20 school year — 88 students total — were Black, even though Black students make up more than 11 percent of the state’s public school enrollment.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Since then, it has successfully formed governments in New Delhi and Punjab in addition to winning some seats in the Indian Parliament’s lower house ( Lok Sabha ). AAP emerged from the India Against Corruption movement in 2013.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

On February 17, a protest organized by an all-party action council in Pulpally, also in north Wayanad, turned violent when government officials and representatives didn’t promise in writing to meet the protesters’ demands. The debates often featured local activists urging the government to heed the pleas of the public living in fear.

Humanities 52

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Without it, kids can’t attend virtual classes or complete homework at home, and families can miss out on critical healthcare or government services. We’ve seen the federal government step up and say, ‘You know what, we need to pay for that.’”. However, 28.2 million U.S. The pandemic really changed the political will.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Despite promising in 1974 to cover nearly half the extra cost for schools to provide special education, the federal government has never done so.) In the 2019-20 year, the district spent about $175,000 on interpretation and translation services, she said; last school year, that figure was more than $450,000.

High School 145

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 26, 2020

During the 2019–2020 school year alone, 13 percent of Golden Plains students experienced chronic absenteeism. Now, Pecina and his team at Golden Plains are leveraging their district’s customized learning plan to establish a governance structure to serve as the basis for their work.

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Life and Landscapes

OCTOBER 25, 2024

For the reader who wishes to delve more deeply, we suggest the 2019 publication “A Lifetime of Achievement: Our Collection of Prestigious Listees” by Marquis Who’s Who. It is a singular achievement to reach one’s 90 th , but even this milestone almost pales in light of all she has attained. Here we recount some of the highlights.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2023

Despite the presence of a nearby government school, Sodi’s son and two daughters study at the Assembly of God Church in the Indian border town of Rupaidiha, where Sodi himself once studied. The curriculum for grades one through 10 has been developed, says Tripathi, who has worked with the government on this project.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Government Accountability Office, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Education. Government Accounting Office (1993), the National Academy of Sciences (Pellegrino, Jones, & Mitchell, 1999); and the National Academy of Education (Shepard, 1993). They immediately came under fire in reviews by the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2021

percent since fall 2019, compared to a 5.3 While basic needs insecurities threaten students regardless of gender, a 2019-20 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study of the pandemic’s impact on undergraduates found that females had greater difficulty than males accessing food or paying for food and finding stable and safe child care.

Economics 117

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

Why it matters: The federal government spent almost $2 billion on tutoring over the course of 2020 and 2021, and venture capitalists followed suit in 2022, investing more than $300 million in tutoring companies. Industry heavyweight Canvas bought Learn Platform , citing the company’s capabilities in assessing product efficacy as a rationale.

EdTech 104

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ED Surge

JULY 28, 2022

The center worked with the National Indian Child Care Association to analyze 184 tribal child care plans submitted to HHS for the 2019-2022 fiscal year. There are a handful of government offices—like the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the Interior Department and HHS—that would need to collaborate on the issue, Smith says.

Primary Sources 102

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2024

In the absence of government intervention and investment, a lot of businesses have been stepping up to make sure that their employees can access affordable child care,” said Samantha Melvin, an assistant research professor at the Erikson Institute, an independent graduate school for early childhood education.

Government 91

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Based on these early successes, education leaders in government and nonprofit organizations sought to bring the power of text messages to hundreds of thousands of students. Nudging texts even prompted parents of preschoolers to read to their kids more. But as the texts reached larger numbers of people, they stopped working.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2020

By the end of 2019, there was $128 billion in private student loans, which was higher than total debt for payday loans and past-due medical debt. By contrast, for student loans held by the federal government, borrowers don’t have to pay until Sept. This lack of government regulation can put vulnerable borrowers at risk.

Government 72

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

In March 2019, McBride finally succeeded in getting her daughter identified as having an emotional impairment and given an individualized education program, or IEP. Smith Howard has been advocating for years to have the federal government address shortened school days. In 2016, following requests from her group, the U.S.

Education 145

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